Retailers buoyed by strong sales in wintry run up to Christmas
The harsh winter weather seems to have done little harm to shops in Lerwick, with most proprietors stating they had one of their busiest periods
READ FULL STORYThe harsh winter weather seems to have done little harm to shops in Lerwick, with most proprietors stating they had one of their busiest periods
READ FULL STORYTwo new wind turbines could soon appear above Cunningsburgh if the latest in a growing list of plans for renewable energy projects in the isles
READ FULL STORYThe government’s proposal to shut either Shetland’s or Stornoway’s coastguard station is “fundamentally flawed” and underestimates the length of Scotland’s coastline by thousands of miles,
READ FULL STORYSix Shetland fishing boats went out after Christmas to catch fish for the first market of the New Year, with the bumper prices this involves.
READ FULL STORYThe Shetland senior football team will not be going to the 2011 NatWest Island Games, it has been confirmed.
READ FULL STORYNewborn Holly Hunter just missed the Hogmanay celebrations. The first baby to be born at Lerwick’s Gilbert Bain Hospital in 2010 came into the world
READ FULL STORYAnger over the council’s antics reached boiling-point when SIC chief executive David Clark walked away from his job after less than nine months with a
READ FULL STORYThe council went into a tail-spin and financial watchdog Audit Scotland promised close scrutiny as it began an investigation into the SIC.
READ FULL STORYA cloud hung over Shetland in April. But this was no metaphorical cloud conjured up to convey the usual dark moods emanating from the Town
READ FULL STORYThere was growing anticipation for a showdown at the Town Hall when the Accounts Commission ordered a public hearing be held into the SIC.
READ FULL STORYIt was revealed senior council officials feared for their jobs if the Accounts Commission decided to impose an entirely new management team on the crisis-laden
READ FULL STORYJames Christopher MacRae Rosie was born at Heylor, North Mavine, in the home of his aunt Mary.
READ FULL STORYShetland’s posties have been literally run off their feet this Christmas, with the Post Office reporting a five per cent increase over last year in
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